Watch this video interview with Will Allen, an urban farmer who has managed to produce ONE MILLION POUNDS of organic food in just 3 acres.
Urban Farmer : Will Allen
No Place for Resent
Click here to read Kimberlye Kowalczyk’s (Managing Editor) photo essay from ten days in the tsunami affected areas in Tohoku (Northeastern Japan) in April, 2011.
Kyoto Journal Biodiversity Issue
The award-winning, all-volunteer & nonprofit magazine Kyoto Journal’s newest issue, “Biodiversity; Japan’s Satoyama and Our Shared Future” features contributions from more than 50 writers, photographers and artists and highlights national, regional, and international environmental issues affecting all of our lives today. You can subscribe to KJ or download a selection of articles here.
Common Ground News Service
“CGNews-Middle East distributes articles to media outlets and individual subscribers which offer hope, promote dialogue and propose solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict.”
“CGNews-Partners in Humanity distributes constructive articles on a broad range of issues affecting Muslim-Western relations to media outlets and individual subscribers.”
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BBC – Gitmo guard reunited with ex-inmates
Watch this report (and read the article!) from BBC about the reconciliation between an ex-Guantanamo Bay guard and two ex-inmates.
Kyoto Journal: Article 9
This special issue of Kyoto Journal, an award-winning, all-volunteer magazine based in Kyoto, Japan, gives readers an intimate insight into the significance of Article 9 of the Japanese constitution in Japan, East Asia, and the world.
Article 9 of the constitution states:
Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. (2) To accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.
For more on Issue #72: The Power of the Ideal, and to order a copy, CLICK HERE.
Cultural Hegemony and Its Discontents
Read this article about media and cultural hegemony by German development worker (Sudan) and co-creator of the Peace Media Framework, Dominik Lehnert.
People Building Peace
Visit this large archive of success stories about People Building Peace
‘And the Pursuit of Happiness’ by Maira Kalman
Read about this creative photojournalist’s journey across America’s food landscape.
Resurgence : Beyond Copenhagen
A solutions-oriented article about the outcome of the CoP15 Climate Summit by Stephen Hale, the Director of Green Alliance, from Resurgence Magazine (UK).